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timschochet's thread- Mods, please move this thread to the Politics Subforum, thank you (3 Viewers)

Yankee23Fan said:
tim - we need a new draft - Greatest tim posts in the FFA.  We need drafters and judges.  The categories I'm thinking are:

Best use of smilie

Most ridiculously stupid pro-Hillary post

Best post immediately prior to being banned/suspended

Best post that received no likes

Top post about movies

Top post about book - although we probably need sub categories here.

We could use about 15 more categories.  We need at least 10 drafters and judge.  I want to judge top posts about WWII Russia from the vantage point of a small jewish boy on the coast of Egypt after having not eaten in 4 days. (There has be like 40 of them at least, right?)
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1.01 - That time he argued with himself under his alias.

 
Is the post going to be in here or somewhere else?  I need to know exactly where to be at the right time.

The suspense is killing me.

 
So here are 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

5. The humor. I am not so great at this myself, though I can surprise from time to time. But there are some posters here who can be incredibly funny to read. 

McGarnicle comes to mind- i still remember when MC Gas Money was talking about a book he was going to write and McGarnicle offered up the first chapter, about how Mother's Day was unusually important at the MC household (a reference to MC's previous odd claim of a sexual dalliance between himself and his mother.) I kept laughing about that for days. Even now it brings a smile to my face. So rude and tasteless, yet hilarious. 

I have to admit that some of the threads that make me laugh the most are the ones started by Eminence, because I believe he's a real guy, and a knucklehead. So it's very entertaining to read about his latest stupid escapade and then reading the responses rip him apart. It's a guilty pleasure. 

 
I remember watching the fall of the Berlin Wall on television at a young age.  I remember watching the people with hammers hitting the wall and pulling down parts.  I remember the euphoria that the cameras captured as the old world died and a new one was being born.

This isn't anything like that of course.  But I remember.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
:lmao:

It had to be a countdown list.
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:lol:

Should have started a thread "Top 5 posts before I hit 100,000" or "Tim's First 99,995 posts draft"

 
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timschochet said:
So here are 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

5. The humor. I am not so great at this myself, though I can surprise from time to time. But there are some posters here who can be incredibly funny to read. 

McGarnicle comes to mind- i still remember when MC Gas Money was talking about a book he was going to write and McGarnicle offered up the first chapter, about how Mother's Day was unusually important at the MC household (a reference to MC's previous odd claim of a sexual dalliance between himself and his mother.) I kept laughing about that for days. Even now it brings a smile to my face. So rude and tasteless, yet hilarious. 

I have to admit that some of the threads that make me laugh the most are the ones started by Eminence, because I believe he's a real guy, and a knucklehead. So it's very entertaining to read about his latest stupid escapade and then reading the responses rip him apart. It's a guilty pleasure. 
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I always found it weird that was so funny to you given the unfortunate Roman Polanski comments you had made. :unsure:  

 
timschochet said:
I have to admit that some of the threads that make me laugh the most are the ones started by Eminence, because I believe he's a real guy
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You better tell Squissy that so he can update his notebook.

 
Continuing the 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

4. Difference of opinion. 

This is actually specific to political discussions. There are very few discussion forums that I have been able to discover in which there is thoughtful discussion and debate from both left and right. Most forums are primarily left or right, because for some reason I have never been able to fathom, a lot of people prefer to always discuss stuff with those that agree with them all the time. 

Those forums that I have found that do offer open debate between left and right, other than this one, are filled primarily with personal insults and dumb, predictable comments. There is no depth of conversation, nothing to be learned: just a bunch of idiots screaming at each other. Yes that can happen here too, at times, but there's enough people in this forum who try to engage in serious back and forth discussion that it makes up for the rest of it. 

 
timschochet said:
So here are 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

5. The humor. I am not so great at this myself, though I can surprise from time to time. But there are some posters here who can be incredibly funny to read. 

McGarnicle comes to mind- i still remember when MC Gas Money was talking about a book he was going to write and McGarnicle offered up the first chapter, about how Mother's Day was unusually important at the MC household (a reference to MC's previous odd claim of a sexual dalliance between himself and his mother.) I kept laughing about that for days. Even now it brings a smile to my face. So rude and tasteless, yet hilarious. 

I have to admit that some of the threads that make me laugh the most are the ones started by Eminence, because I believe he's a real guy, and a knucklehead. So it's very entertaining to read about his latest stupid escapade and then reading the responses rip him apart. It's a guilty pleasure. 
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:clap:

 
timschochet said:
Continuing the 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

4. Difference of opinion. 

This is actually specific to political discussions. There are very few discussion forums that I have been able to discover in which there is thoughtful discussion and debate from both left and right. Most forums are primarily left or right, because for some reason I have never been able to fathom, a lot of people prefer to always discuss stuff with those that agree with them all the time. 

Those forums that I have found that do offer open debate between left and right, other than this one, are filled primarily with personal insults and dumb, predictable comments. There is no depth of conversation, nothing to be learned: just a bunch of idiots screaming at each other. Yes that can happen here too, at times, but there's enough people in this forum who try to engage in serious back and forth discussion that it makes up for the rest of it. 
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Wait.....

You post on other boards?

 
Continuing the 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

3. Courtesy and respect

The first rule of this forum is "be excellent to each other!" and most people abide by this. Yeah there are exceptions; I don't need to name any here. But most people try to be courteous and respectful at all times. 

I try to do that myself; I don't always succeed. Because the political debates in particular can be so emotional, this results in give and take that can get ugly at times. 

If any of you reading this have ever felt personally insulted by something I've written about you in the past, I apologize. Most of the time it was unjustified. (There's a few times when it WAS justified, but I doubt any of those guys are bothering to read this thread.) 

 
timschochet said:
Continuing the 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

3. Courtesy and respect

The first rule of this forum is "be excellent to each other!" and most people abide by this. Yeah there are exceptions; I don't need to name any here. But most people try to be courteous and respectful at all times. 

I try to do that myself; I don't always succeed. Because the political debates in particular can be so emotional, this results in give and take that can get ugly at times. 

If any of you reading this have ever felt personally insulted by something I've written about you in the past, I apologize. Most of the time it was unjustified. (There's a few times when it WAS justified, but I doubt any of those guys are bothering to read this thread.) 
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The guy at the top of the mountain doesn't apologize to the people below with how he got there dude. 

 
Continuing the 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

2. Interesting discussion: 

So many people here have accused me narcissism that I spend hours each day looking in the mirror and asking myself: is it true??

Just kidding. As I have explained many many times, I am one of those who crave good discussion and debate. And that's why I'm here. There always seems to be a lot of people interested in discussing the same stuff I am: politics, culture, sports, entertainment, music, etc. and so many of the people here are so smart and interesting. I have learned so much in this forum. It continues to be incredibly entertaining and informative. 

 
timschochet said:
Continuing the 5 reasons I love the FFA: 

2. Interesting discussion: 

So many people here have accused me narcissism that I spend hours each day looking in the mirror and asking myself: is it true??

Just kidding. As I have explained many many times, I am one of those who crave good discussion and debate. And that's why I'm here. There always seems to be a lot of people interested in discussing the same stuff I am: politics, culture, sports, entertainment, music, etc. and so many of the people here are so smart and interesting. I have learned so much in this forum. It continues to be incredibly entertaining and informative. 
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See, this is post padding.  You already hit this point in the others.  You aren't adding anything to the discussion with the guy shooting for 100,000.  

 
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